The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-09-01
ALLIANCE.

interesting piece of campaign literature
to. do with it as you please.
ALLIANCE.
DEAR SIR: In response to the many
calls sounding my calibre on the candl.
dacy question which is an enigma of
some consideration to PROFOUND TO my
aspirations IN political sense that have
been limited, | have decided to become
the candidate of the agricultural field
for Representative. The farmers ranks
must be represented in all branches Of
official status. The era has arrived that
demands of every working man deliberate
consideration in election interests. Ihe
ballot is the farmers most effective
weapon OF defense, which has for years
been in rusty state. You have been
carried away from your interest by sill
very tongued orators III political matters
until yon have been ruled out as tenants
incompetent to have IL voice in the seleC-
ton Of any candidates. Farmers have
already listened too long to the song OF
of siren Democracy or political dema-
gogutry for their present and future
good. / send YOU with this copy of my
platform published in the last Radiator,
by which on will see stand solid against
the money power aud eXtOrtion that is
pressing down the poor down'trodden
laboring man and all other inequalities
not detachable.
But my main reason for writing to you
now is to get you 10 explain something t"
the Beaver Creek boys that some of my
opponents will be using against mo not
altogether SaiubriouS. Because Memo
(Which is me) criticised some proxies tor
acting on the Executive Committee, some
of my friends are blaming me for gong
into the County Convention rs proxy for
Stokes Allen, and some of my enemies
tel lug it hat have got into tronble by
taking that deed in trust lrou-ciad oath
and going into to that Convention and
helping to nominate II man tor Repre-
sentative and adopt a platform and then
coming out on my own hook on another
platform, but that is all souless monopoly
talk to debilitate the understanding of
the public eye. I'll tell you how it was
aud YOU explain to the Beaver Creek
bows You see Stokes want at the meet
ing that appointed him delegate TO the
Convention, and didn't sign the pledge,
so when | went in as u proxy | wasn't
bound by what was done, | got the proxy
because l was letter parliamentary
LAWYER than Stokes, and wanted to holp
head off some of them wire-pullinS Dem
ocrats from making nominations tor cOun-
ty officers like the Executive Committee
wanted, to save Ruhe NcNair and some
of the rest of our men. Rube didn't want
TO 90 before the convention and he didn't
want to run against the Democratic
nominee, if he could help IT, and be called
an independent, and that was the only
way to save him and uncle Allen Smith
and some of the rest in the party. These
al riuU- leaders etutf,.l with
arrogance and presumption see and pic
ture the bright future with emotions OF
great pleasure in their own interest and
promotion in the GXnberance of tancitni
ina WinatiOu to their great hnahclai
progress of ease and luxury. l don't
care anything about being, called an III
dependent. I'm the candidate of the
agricultural field and am going to Jack
son aud get the laws changed so that the
farming class can get justice i'll the
courts, which amt the case now III
Chrisman's court or any where else-be-
canse the Courts amt run for anything
else but the interest of the deed OF trust
merchants and against the tarmer-class
monopoly. Our Judge has lucrative
and responsible position which he fills
with credit to some classes and with some
not altogether harmonious. 1t looks
dlSconraging to the farming class to note
the brilliant array of talented counsel
and iudgeship ruling against limited
means to maze him pay ten dollars per
barrel for -four and 10 cents per pound Tor
washed ashes Such enactmentS seem to
unbiased opinion as to Justice is without
form and void of all virtuOus qualities
that belong to human nature eXtant.
half dozen big lawyers and judge and IL
big merchantile firm all fighting against
worn out cIOd-smasher to coerce him to
pay two hundred per cent, on musty
barrel of flour and other goods in like
proportion and by technical ruling they
whip him ont of his means. If this be
the law, which | am inclined to indulge
the opinion that it must be, as the ruling
is honest no doubt, such laws should be
forced from the classic record. Tunes arc
80 hard, monopoly SO grinding, over
bearing aud bare faced, IL change is very
necessary, and you will SEQ from my
platform intended to have it made. The
law should be revised under this head and
open to ltgants free fight. After
long and tireSome preamble of mlsrcp-
resentation in our ranks of farmers and
labOrers our wishes and interest should be
considered by the bon-tOns of Democracy
by giving MS a representative in sympathy
and interest with our avocation and the
agricultural field.
That mass meeting to decide on a can
didate wasn't held for the reason that
there were too many candidates and too
few people at the meeting, and SO it was
decided to let all the candidates run and
vote for each other, as some would not
have stood by what the meeting did any
how. The people will decide at the polls.
Clarke Maxwell don't stand IA ghost of IA
chance. His own neighbors are not going
to vote for him, and | haven't heard of
ten men in the county that will. The
same with old man Law Brister. He
won't get five votes in his own beat unless
he gets them from his own kinfolks. As
for Deason, both niggers and white folks
are diSpusted with him. He has PLAYED